Owlympics Ice Skating

I'm an early-morning owl. - Patrick Wilson

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. - Unknown

When the owl sings, the night is silent. - Charles de Leusse

He who has no falcon must hunt with an owl. - Danish Proverb

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Bible

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was born a jackdaw - why should I try to be an owl? - Ogden Nash

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been. - Wayne Gretzky

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits. - Alfred Tennyson

The Republic of China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. - Alan Ayckbourn

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates. - Joe Sakic

In the Moscow Olympics, Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion's race. - David Coleman

I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use. - Karla Souza

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics, so he's used to being out in front. - David Coleman

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart. - Edward Lear

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go. - Michael Phelps

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard. - Jesse Owens

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

You can't fly with the owls by night and expect to keep up with the eagles during the day. - Unknown

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. - Robbie Coltrane

I rejoice that there are owls. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. - Henry David Thoreau

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

I keep fit. Every morning, I do a hundred laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool - in a small motor launch. - Peter Cook

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. - Josh Fox

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound
Where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound - Munia Khan

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious. - Mehmet Murat ildan

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies. - Alfred Tennyson

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. - A. A. Milne

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top. - Bible

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous. - David Walton

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. - Robert Frost

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. - Isabel Gillies